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Tuesday, June 11th 2013
Things are really hotting up on site now, here's some pics to help get you in the mood...
The production teams are on site now, they've marked out, the first scaff is up and the first boards are being put on the new frontages to heaven and hell. Andy Cross (top architect and crew member) has designed these installations and has 40 crew on site building them, so I reckon we'll have something pretty decent to show you.
Just want to give a big thanks to everyone making it happen this year.
All the crew are stars, heres just a few of them... Jamie Astral from Astral Design lighting, whos going to make it all shine fantastically for you (astraldesign.co.uk). Seain Loughlin from Positive Focus who is going to make it all sound fantastic (pfevents.com). Thanks to Richard Martin, who is helping us with more lights for the Hell Stage.
This years interns have proved to be fantastic help. They have been working tirelessly to help make this years project a reality and making us feel like we can one day ditch this malarkey and leave it safe in the hands of the next generation.
The golden wristbands have arrived in our HQ at last. Boy there's a lot of hype about them which is funny and brill, but not to be taken too seriously (this is Shangri-la afterall, we're the ones that specialise in theatrical interaction). If you cant bear a few moments of theatrical interaction (and we all have moments of that) then you can fast-track your way to instant absolution by buying a SL Heavenly Welly Bag for a couple quid.
The bit that¹s going to be really hard to figure out how to get into is the uber luxury yurt at the centre of the Garden of Eden. So VIP not even we know how to get in (really). Only the admin angels will be able to select the "chosen few" to get in, and they are all a bit odd frankly, so who knows.
We're pleased to announce that sshh… will be working with us this year to provide this yurt above all other yurts. Our art department will be working with their art department to give an injection of sheer luxury into this little section of the South East Corner.
So, last blog from London, I'm off to join all the guys on site who've been grafting for 2 weeks now. Better get a move on.
Monday, May 13th 2013
We've been busy getting on with it and generally getting excited about all stuff happening and the brilliant blags we've had from people trying to get wristbands for heaven via our Facebook page. We haven't even started on telling you about Hell yet. Our alleyways have been reconfigured and themed around Dante's Seven Circles of Hell, which different spaces for diferent types of contemporary sinner. We just named them all yesterday, turn left at the Avenue of Corruption onto Mutilation Row and so forth. Hoarders Passage will be claustrophobic and Lust Lane will be sticky. Let's not go into Anus Close.
It's all shaping up really nice with all the nanovenues who will inhabit the alleys. Art Director Kaye Dunnings has been working closely with the nanos and artists throughout SL, and two of the things we're especially excited about are:
Stunning new frontages for Heaven and Hell designed by Andrew Cross (www.an-architecture.co.uk) in collaboration with the SL team. Blurring the lines between art and architecture, Andrew is our kind of guy, creating work, which is "not the kind of architecture that's filled with offices and creates skylines and not the kind of art that hangs on walls to just be looked at".
In times when governments spend billions on banks but don't spend any money on art any more, we welcome The Exchangibition Bank by Dutch artist Dadara (http://blog.artasmoney.com/bank). The Exchangibition bank is an ongoing project, which raises questions about the value(s) of Art and Money, and it will be located in the 4th circle of Hell, reserved for Hoarders and Spendthrifts.
Programming wise, we're not normally famed for our daytime sessions but this year is a bit different.
Every afternoon in Shangri-La is a session on The Hell Stage called "Up Close" where we invite some of the nations biggest and most recognised DJs / Collectors to really show us their "wares", in a more intimate setting than the full-on night-time show.
Bye for now
Debs at Shangri-la HQ
Friday October 12th 2012
Wow. More than a year and 2 festival seasons later… we're back on the blog, on board the mothership Glasto, and boy are we glad to be home!
Shangri-la 2011 turned out to be the best year yet, the full realisation of the dystopic, future-city, Bladerunner style, vision we'd been evolving over 3 years. It was incredibly moving to see all the work coming together in such magnificent fashion. The hub and alleys set a new benchmark for festivals and we've been glad to see the influence of the nano-venue spreading through festival culture. Boomtown, bless em, did a fantastic homage, and we're happy to see the kids taking it on and developing it.
Shangri-la is about setting the bar high, about pushing it as far as we can go creatively. We're there to help make sure that Glasto has always got the freshest content in the festival world. We're starting fresh for 2013 with a new series of shows, introducing a new set, new venues and and a new theme which we will develop over the next 4 years.
Something that makes Shangri-la absolutely unique is its evolving narrative, we tell a new chapter each year. Contributing artists and designers respond to the story to create their own sub-plots. The Audience becomes inhabitants of the film-set inspired wonderland, Shangri-la, which they explore and become lost within. It is an other-worldly festival experience, with plenty of mind blowing surprises along the way!
Star Wars prologue style, let's look at the first series of the story. 2008-2011
2008- Free for all
2009 – Beginning of a new order – the rule of the Shangri-la Administration, a corrupt dictatorship who built a city devoted to the pursuit of 24hr pleasure.
2010 – Rebellion – the overthrow of the Administration by the Rebels of the Badland Alleys.
2011 – Virus/End of the world – the "lucky ones" were preparing to leave for a new colony, the hub was being shipped off and the alleyways and their inhabitants left to die in the virus-riddled slums.
2012 – no show - During this time, the new colonists where horribly betrayed by the very aliens that they sought to befriend (yes). Everyone that stayed in Shangri-la died of the virus. Everything that was once there has now gone.
2013 - sees the beginning of the Afterlife series. The afterlife has all kinds of interesting places it can go. Anywhere in fact, the afterlife is our oyster and there are literally no limits to what it can be. There is however, a classic place to start; Heaven, Hell and Purgatory are concepts deeply embedded in the collective consciousness of our Glastonbury audience and is also a fantastic wealth of inspiration.
So, it's out with the old and in with the new. Nothing you saw before will be there, but the things you loved - the exploration, the hidden doors, the layers and layers of artwork, the stonking party, the filthy and fluffy venues, the secret big-name acts – it will all be there, but in a new form.
Something new we're exploring this year is opening up this early creative development phase to the audience. We've been having some fantastic dialogues on Facebook and have made our pre-brief moodboards public for the first time. If you're interested you can click www.facebook.com/ShangriLaGlasto or have a look at http://pinterest.com/debsarmstrong/new-shangri-la-inspirations/
Shangri-la 2013 - One Man's Heaven is Another Man's Hell.
We hope you enjoy.
Monday June 20th 2011
Hello there,
The Festival opens in two days time and work on site has stepped up to a furious pace. It's looking fantastic down here in Shangri-la, and indeed across the whole of the naughty corner. All the fields are looking great, but with such different styles. It's going to be a mega year – what an extraordinary amount of work goes in to create these areas for you, it makes me feel very proud of them all.
This year I personally have been doing a lot less running around in the field than usual, as I am also working hard on next year's project. As you all know, theres no Glastonbury next year, so the big burning questions are what are we going to do next, and where's it going to be? Well, we know the answers and we're very excited indeed!
So to find out, come down to Shangri-La and keep an eye out for anyone with one of our What next? Where Next? Who next? Stickers on – they will be in the know. If you want to be in the know yourself, our stickering hq will have info, it is located between the two fabulous 2-storey venues in the alleys.
If you're not able to attend the Festival this year, but have found your way to our blog, we'll give you the easy way, mud-free and from the comfort of your own home. Shangri-La is proud to announce….
All the best,
Wednesday June 15th 2011
Hi all, being creatures of the Glasto-night, daytime is not usually thought of as a highlight. This year however, we're catering for those who may not be into the big stage schlep, and who just want to dance to reggae and dancehall in the sun with their mates (oh. that's us). So if you like it too, c'mon down to the Hub, we're making it real nice, or rather Lovebullets, Black Butter and BushBash are... check out what they've got to say...
The Hub Stage in Shangri-la is THE place to be for the ultimate daytime party experience, the stage will be running from 11am until 6am the next day so you can party Until your legs drop off.
LOVEBULLETS have teamed up with BLACK BUTTER RECORDS and BUSHBASH to bring you a super stomping daytime line up in support of WAR CHILD.
Get ready for some dubstep beats, jungle raving and London sounds on Saturday from 11am with Rack N Ruin, Warrior One, Man like Me, Klose one and Doorly amongst others Set to rock up and get the crowd jumping.
To close the Festival we have a Sunday all day rave up to keep you going until next time. Sunday morning kicks off with some mellow magic beats at 11am rolling into some reggae, dancehall and bashment with Irition Steppas, Heatwave and lady Chann on the rostra. Legendary yoyo soundsystem take over from 5pm with their extra special guests, moving onto some grime in the early evening with Bushkin, Fonti, and Sway on the mic.
Full line up available here but for a real taste click on the Hub video below.
No big band watching just daytime raving… THE HUB DAYTIME IN SHANGRI-LA.
Thursday June 9th 2011
Hi everyone, excitement is mounting about Glasto weekend, which is getting very near now. For us, it's all happening right now. As we speak a city is being built, fuelled only by dedication and cheese rolls.
It must be hard to imagine the activity on site, but, for your delectation and delight, heres a short funny little film about it, showing the process from build to rave.
Massive thanks to Charlie Miller and Simon Mitchell for producing the film. Big up.
And for the rave-monkeys among you.. YOYOYO CHECK THIS OUT! This is what's in store for you on the Hub... should gee you up nicely for an afternoon of dancing in the sun followed by some serious batty-wine.
Sunday May 8th 2011
As Glastonbury creeps closer and closer, Shangri-La HQ is full-on as we frantically (did I say frantically? I meant calmly and in control) plot the most spectacular, mind bending experience for you yet.
This year's pre-apocalyptic storyline sees the population of Shangri–La preparing to flee before the percieved end of the world in 2012. The new colony is all set up, the most important thing (celebs) have already been dispatched and the first spaceship out leaves on the Monday after the gig. This will be the rave to end all raves – oh yes, it's time to start getting excited folks.
Shangri-La is going to be teeming with a multitude of venues (a whopping 28 in total), varying in scale from the massive to the minute. You can dance until your feet bleed in outdoor arena The HUB, and watch an eclectic array of live music at Club Dada. Lose yourself in interactive venues Slumbarave and the Snakepit, and stumble into the maze of covered Alleys riddled with tiny Nano-venues, each one luring you in to a unique den of weird and wonderful delights.
The centre of Shangri-La is The HUB (Heavy Utopian Beats), a town square in the round and a gathering place for bass-hungry festival goers. When the sun sets over Worthy Farm the HUB becomes a seriously good night out, embellished with mind-blowing projection mapping across the imposing walls. This year we've been developing the HUB's daytime programme, giving it a nice sunshine-rave Ibiza style atmosphere. We'll publish the line-up soon…
Club Dada brings you a tasty variety of top-secret superstars and volcano hot festival favourites, from Gypsy to Ska to African Punk and beyond. In keeping with Glastonbury's famed clandestine style, much of the line up is kept strictly under wraps. However, Club Dada can reveal that Friday night's festivities will see an Electro Swing extravaganza of a line up. Including the Godfather of electro swing himself, Parov Stelar, Parisian darlings of the genre, Caravan Palace, Brighton based, swing-hop MC and DJ duo, The Correspondents, and 3X DMC world champion DJ Switch. Anyone who was caught up in the fabulous frenzy of last year's most decadent and danceable festival scene will know that this is the ultimate Electro Swing lineup.
Throughout site we've got fantastic contemporary visual artists again this year. We've been funded by the Arts Council to continue our successful Contemporary Art at Festivals Program plus have some of the best urban artists coming on board as before. More news about arts coming soon.
Hopefully this blog post has whet your appetite, but it's merely the tip of the Shangri-la shaped iceberg. More exciting news to be unveiled soon, so keep your eyes peeled for future updates and lineup announcements, including details of our 17 nano-venues and many more musical delights.
Tuesday February 1st 2011
End of Jan and the Shangri-train is rolling, we've done the concept and design development, now working on detail and ploughing through the mountain of pre-production to be done. We've had some great news and there are a couple massive new scores that I can tell you about (as opposed to the ones that I can't tell you about).
We've just scored the use of 4 x 35k HD projectors for the video mapping, making a total of a whopping 140,000 lumen being thrown at that wall. Last year we had 72k, you'd have thought that would be enough but no, so big thanks to Darkroom and LM Productions for that - hopefully the videomapping in the Hub will reach its full potential this year.
A big thank-you goes to The Wellcome Trust, who have enabled us to make us exciting new developments this year by commissioning us as part of their season on DIRT to design and build a whole new aspect to Shangri-La….…introducing The Skywalk, Decontamination Chambers and Virus.
As you may know, Shangri-La has a storyline that evolves year by year and willingly or not, you become part of it. In 2009 it was a pleasure city run by a corrupt dictatorship. In 2010 the ruling administration was overthrown and the city was opened up to rebels and chancers who had to fight for resources to carve out their own little piece of paradise.
2011 sees the population preparing to flee before, as they believe, the end of the world in 2012. They've given up trying to save the planet, it was all a bit too much like hard work so they've colonised somewhere else instead. It's a new world, apparently much nicer, and only those who make the grade will be allowed to go there. Everything valuable has been shrinkwrapped in preparation for the first transport shipment to the new world (first ship leaves on Monday) and everything else, especially those vile and virus-ridden slums, is being left to rot in its own miasma.
In order to gain your place in the new and much nicer colony, please make your way to the decontamination facility, where the scientists there can determine whether you are in need of physical or moral decontamination. Post-decontamination, you will given your bio-hazard suit and only then will you be granted access to the Skywalk and be able to take the first step up out of the filth, your journey to the new world….
Wednesday October 6th 2010
The Friday night at this year's Festival was the first time that the Radio One had ventured (officially that is) into our end of the site and the result was a seriously banging night that was a combination of artists from the Essential Mix and our Co-Producer and Production Manager Robin Collings. Here are some great shots of the night featuring Annie Mac, Skream Plan B, Tinie Tempah and Chase & Status from our bella photographer Peeping Tallulah…
Tuesday August 17th 2010
Hi there, this bunch of photos is dedicated to you the punter - having a really good time bringing the world we build to life and making it damn messy in the process.
Thanks to our very talented friend James McCauley for these images.
Monday August 2nd 2010
Hi there, here is a selection of 2010 pics from the very renowned and very lovely photographer Barry Lewis. Barry has been working with us documenting this area since back in Vagueness days and is one of the best around. He's been sticking it out over all these years through mud, dodgy backs, even dodgier trailers and worse I'm sure. You can see more of his incredible work on his website: www.barrylewisphotography.com
Hope you enjoy seeing them as much as we do.
Barry emailed me and said:
"I have just been looking through Shangri La & Lost Vageness....over the years...it would make a great book!! Get a great writer who loves you to tell some of the stories...the good...the bad & the ugly!!!!!! What a great book it would make."
So yes, of course it would! We've got an abundance of stories but there must be loads more out there, so if you've got one to tell us, let us know on our facebook page and who knows, maybe it'll be in a book one day…
Tuesday July 27th 2010
Erm yes, well i wouldn't care to submit the truth from the afterhours of Slumbarave this year, besides the LaSenza could be found more commonly strewn around the venue, than actually worn.
But on a more serious note.......who were all those naughty kids starting rumours about the 'pillow fight club'? My hotel concierge and chambermaids were overwhelmed with keeping the beds made and the stuffing inside the pillows.
May I take this opportunity to remind patrons that we are a respectable establishment and this kind of behaviour will not be condoned, and to reiterate this notion, I will be introducing the new hotel safety feature next year, of a caged pillow fight club, and keep you all safely locked up, so that my more respectful clientele can enjoy the hotels' features, such as the Entropic Treatment Centre, and the Transformation Station.
Also, due to the increase in such violent bedroom aggression I feel it may be time to allocate an area of the hotel to SLUMBAGRAVE, where if you're lucky enough, you will finally be laid to rest with all the other important Shangri la ghosts from the past, and tucked RIGHT up, by our hotel caretakers/grave diggers, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
The management,
Hotel Slumbarave Metropolis.
Tuesday July 13th 2010
Hi guys,
As promised there are a few more pics from the gig below…
I have a small confession about Graviton (the pyramid piece we commissioned for the hub this year), bit embarrassing but who cares… yes I did actually think it was on fire. Jamie (Lighting Diablo) did not tell me there was smoke meant to be pouring out of it, we were in the hub and he said debs turn around – and I saw graviton all smoking and orange and thought the lights inside had caught fire and, yes, like a proper saddo, I did yell at people to get off whilst Jamie pissed himself laughing at me. Har har jamie, I hope it gives you pleasure to see me make a dick of myself yet again. Actually I know for a fact it does.
Another nice hub-rave moment above, but back to Graviton for a sec – you've got to admit it does look a bit like its on fire (less hot though fortunately)
Did any of you catch the bit of videomapping where it really was a 23rd century bladerunner vision, with future cyber-hover craft whizzing round and everything? (a little bit is in the pic above)
Now for the Slumbarave lingerie shots…
At the risk of sounding like a wrong-un, they're very lovely (tea anyone?) but I was hoping for a little bit more sauce on the ol' sausage. I think Bixy's holding something back - perhaps not fit for public consumption?
Anyway I'm sure some you lot must have some more evidence of the negligee-clad bedlam that was Slumbarave during the festival. Only thing that would get in the way of that is the vast amount of pillow fluff exploding through the air and getting in front of the lens. This shot below looks like it's been carefully cropped to avoid looking like it belongs in the Block 9 field…
Here's Michael doing stirling work showing the Guardian around slumbarave before the whole thing really got going.
If you still want to see more pics then good on ya – thanks. Photographer Paul Holmes has kindly put his up on flickr for us all to enjoy – can you spot yourself in crowd?
And if you do have any pics – anything nefarious or illicit is particularly welcome on our facebook page. Speaking of which, the guerilla club, if you were lucky enough to have a gorilla card and got in there and took pics – I need em!
Bye for now,
Saturday July 10th 2010
Hi peeps, got a funny one for you… Harriet Knowles who has been helping me out also runs something called Videopia, they do spoof brief remakes of movies using you the audience as the stars. This year they did Bladerunner using Shangri-la as their backdrop, you can check out their stuff at videopiauk.wordpress.com.
"A very brief remake of cult classic 'Blade Runner', filmed at this year's Glastonbury festival in the weird & wonderful world of Shangri-La. Thanks to everyone who got involved… all the revelers brave enough to get dressed up at 1am to act in front of the camera & lots of confused looking passers by deserve an Oscar!"
If you want to get in touch with Harry then drop by our facebook page, I'm sure more extras are always appreciated.
Wedneday July 7th 2010
Well hello there, I've finally got enough time and brainspace to able to write again after descent into the madness of the festival and exhaustion of the get-out.
So how was it for you? I guess if you're reading this and have been to the festival then you're probably trawling the internet for glasto fodder feeling well nostalgic? Well I am and I do - it was an amazing year, in which a lot of things came together in synchronistic and fabulous style.
I'm going to post up loads of highlights and pics but first I got to say thanks to the people that made it happen…
Loved having our lovely family of friends as our neighbours all around - they did brilliantly well one and all and we were all there to help each other out of course, which is how life should be always with everyone.
Am SO PROUD of the Shangri-La team who work so frikkin hard and I do believe we pulled it off in style. Crew morale was wonderful this year, it was a real pleasure to be on site with everyone and I miss them all now. Okay I admit, we did get slightly pin-up blog-obsessed in the build but hey, what can I say, we love dumbass stuff we can banter about during the build. (People you wouldn't have thought got all greased up to get their pics done - I didn't have time to feature even half of them. Roddy - spotted posing in chains, but where's the pic now eh?). Of course, adding to the hot crew vibe this year was the very special delivery we received from the lovely ladies at LaSenza for Slumbarave. That put a smile on many a face and kept the team spirit up – sauce pics on their way soon…
Seriously though we have a whole lot of people to thank for the success of the field this year so bear with me….
The whole Shangri-La field team, of course. What can I say? There are too many brilliant people- we will just have to feature different aspects of the team over the next year on here I think.
Special thanks, of course, go to the Glastonbury Festival team, you may or may not of heard of some of these people before, they are yet more hidden angels, but they do the stuff that makes the whole massive ridiculously complicated festival possible, (apparently ours is just a tiny corner – who knew? ) So thank you…. Michael for your unceasing support of our whole subculture that makes up Shangri, Unfairground, Arcadia, Block 9 and the Common. Emily – our ever sunny friend and heartfelt advocate, Jackie and Katharine – yes I know we're not easy but hope we're worth it!, Julie – for always being there to help. To Robert, Dick, Rob, Luke, Beth, Crispin, Tracey, Phil and everyone else – thanks for the support on site, the whole thing has been able to develop this way because of all of your help, I hope we do our small part in helping to keep the festival exciting, unique and groundbreaking.
Big thanks really as well to Jamie from Astral Design (our Lighting Director) for saving our hide with the video mapping and to Bruce and Emma from the Darkroom for being a great new part of the team. To Chris from Electro-Signs for helping us realize our vision with the neons and lightboxes and Damian from Roadrunner for rigging them. To Tom Wilkinson for being so brave as to let us borrow his incredibly fragile and beautiful Light Wave piece. Mutate Britain, dear friends thank-you for hooking us up with the wonderful artists - Dr D, Obey, Teddy - and thanks to them too…
Okay this is getting silly now I could go on forever.
Back to the fun stuff – Shangri pics to come but in the meantime check out these brill video-mapping and R1 night videos….
Makes me spine-tingle.
Last but not least, looks like we're ahead of the game for next year with the theme already decided by Timmy on site – The End of the World.
Scary stuff.
Monday June 21st 2010
Hi Peeps, just a quick note to let you know theres a discussion starting about what to wear in Shangri-La on our facebook page.
Much of Shangri-la's other worldly wonderment is down to its retro-futuristic look, inspired by fantasy dystopias such as 'Bladerunner', 'District 9' and 'Star Wars'. A key part of this look is costume. This is no fancy dress competition; this is about creating living theatre, a world to get lost in. We want to encourage the audience to become part of this, so before you come in, nip back to your tent and slip into something less comfortable before you get your rave on in Shangri-La. Think of yourself as an extra on the set of 'Blade Runner' that's fallen into a vat of glitter…
Here's a few more shots that lovely harry has put in and theres another 30 or so on facebook. But I've been seeing loads of stuff in the fashion press recently that I think would fit right in, all that futuristic stuff, please anyone fashiony who knows what I'm on about add to the discussion on facebook as I'm up to me eyeballs! - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shangri-La/107598949284949?ref=ts
Saturday June 19th 2010
HI there, things are hotting up on site now, its not quite chaos o' clock but its 5 to. [I wrote that this morning and then hit chaos o'clock, it's now 9pm].
Anyway who cares, back to the eye-candy...!
Introducing the wonderful, unique, Mistress Selecta that is Kaye. As Robin (we need a whole section on him) says, she is fucking hot. I think you'll all agree, that if she can look this good after a long sweaty day, then hey.
Kaye likes: Willy and bangers and mash. Dislikes: any visible cable ties or staples in the set and polystyrene beanbag balls.
Kaye is one of our Art Directors and along with Timmy Wobble every weds is art department day at my place, and I love it so much that when the festival ends I feel bereft of art department Wednesdays until they start up again. Mainly we drink tea and make jokes at each others expense, but it's also where a lot of the core concepts of Shangri-la are developed.
Loads of the shack-builders turned up today, really nice bunch of people, very patient with the minor shack shuffle that was required. Looking forward, with a bit of trepidation, to see how they all turn out.
Sorry not more, got to go to timmys pub quiz in nicks cider bar.
Thursday June 17th 2010
Well, it seems I've started a small controversy down here with my arcadia fittest crew remark. Blog of the day seems to be turning into pin-up of the day. Kaye is your mistress selecta so get ready to witness the fitness…
This is Philsky, aka fluffy Phil. Phil is our bronzed Chief Chippy. Likes: Raves, Tasmanian trees, anarchists, growing olives, songs that go "we built this city, we built this city on…[cheese sandwiches/mud etc]". Dislikes: splinters.
This is a message from phil to the outside world:
"I want my family to know I'm OK and they are feeding me and treating me well. I hope to be released at the end of June. Please don't forget about me. I love you…"
More tomorrow, the ladies are getting jealous for their turn and last night the scaff crew volunteered to do tools and helmets shots for you. They were keen as mustard I tell you but today when I try to sort it all I got was "but I was drunk" . Hmm.
Set build is going so well that I even have time to do this, but then, its still its not chaos o'clock quite yet…
Heres a pic of lovely Clare (Boss lady of construction) and Sarah (Art dept painting effects maestro). Oh yeah, and the Hub!
The bit that's not painted yet we're putting in a huge street art installation by Jim and Max Woodall, who did all the great poster and drill work by dada last year. Last year the hub got tagged to buggery, but they're working on this piece all event so we'll see what happens. And can I just say, Jesus theres some seriously good acts in there!! (new stage on the other side). Check out the lineup and Chase n Status myspace. Cor.…
Btw, if anyone wants to send Phil's ransom money, that's fine. 18billion euros should cover it.
Wednesday June 16th 2010
Hello. We'd like you to introduce you to some of the peeps.
So over to chief boss ladies Kaye (Art Director) and Belle (Site Manager)
Kaye – "Ever realise how important scaff is to make this all happen? Well Nick Giles and his team are the ones that hump it and erect it in all conditions, wet or dry, flat or hilly,pre- organized or last minute chaos these are the boys that make it happen.
Today we have a lovely picture of Trevor, so we thought we'd feature him as our pin-up of the day. Trevor is a strapping 6ft something (big anyway), might be welsh, likes – Cider and minirolls."
Belle – " If you're very lucky he might show you his love lantern."
Okay… so more from the production office later…
Sunday June 13th 2010
Shangri-La is pleased to announce the success of our Build a Palace from Pallets competition.
In a first for festivals, Shangri-La has opened up our field include the creativity of the public in the creation of the area.
Festival-goers were invited to respond to our narrative and design and build their own homes on site and we received a tremendous (and grateful) response to the brief.
The overall theme of the field is about a fight for resources and the shacks form a crucial part - they are the tiny homes erected by the desperate on the outskirts of the alleys.
Whilst the Shacks are part of the overall visual aesthetic of the field, there is a more serious aspect to the project – this is about a fight for survival when resources become scarce and resourcefulness becomes the name of the game.
From the beautiful to the profound via downright silly, our weird yet wonderful winning entries are detailed below:
"The reason that these materials have been chosen is to firstly exhibit how found materials can be recycled for use in building; the ability to use recycled materials is fundamental to sustainable development. Secondly, the water bottles are used to highlight a socio-political issue: the global shortages of water. Two thirds of the bottles in the structure will be full of water and the other one third will be left empty to symbolise the 1/3 of the world's population that suffers from a shortage of drinking water."
"Afuture hybrid religion has emerged amongst the struggle for survival in Shangri-La. After a huge hoard of ancient VHS tapes was discovered by miners on the outskirts of the city a new form of worship began to take hold in the city. Followers of this new religion worship the characters and monsters depicted on the covers of the VHS boxes. They believe them to be prophets and saints from time's past; a lost religion now reborn!"
"What would happen if superman was still around?
What if he worked with our governments to help towards a better future? IN THE SUPERSHACK HE DOES!"
"Continuing directly on from the events of Shangri-La in 2009, the shack imagines that during the Utopian fantasy that followed the revolt, flashy boutiques flourished, popping up in sheds and ramshackle structures. 'Channel your Aggression' is a shop that has been taken over by a revolution, the couture turning into rebel armour, a costume of reclaimed evening wear covered in slogans of playful aggression. getting ready to fight for what you believe in, to fight for what is right, and to do it with style and conviction."
The Seed Bank is a concept that will show how we have escaped the corporation strangle-hold and live by means of exchange tolerance and help. Where fellow man will be provided with provisions exchanged with other provisions and resources required for day to day living. For example:
You can swap your unwanted TV remote for some fresh water and tomato plant seeds. The TV will be obsolete so now only collected for parts and scrap, and in return given valuable and ever so rare tomato plants and clean water. A utopia where we are trusted to be humble, honourable and giving.
The vegetable corner shop of the future, combining a retro shopping experience with futuristic sentient vegetables. Due to nuclear and chemical pollution the vegetables have mutated and grocery shopping is now a disturbing experience. The horned shopkeeper, vegetable limbs hidden beneath his grubby apron, glares at you with glowing eyes as you enter, but stays put in his corner. On display, hideous dystopian creations nestle next to militant fruit of the lower ranks: some scramble for freedom, but their glowing bodies offer no camouflage. Soylent greens jostle for space with jaundiced carrots, while silent spring onions glare mutely at you. These fruit all have eyes, and teeth, and some are armed – and they're watching you...
Words speak louder than actions. Through governmental influence, generations have conspired against themselves to disintegrate the former international language of English. Studies dating back to 2010 have shown that talking to your plants really does promote healthy and natural growth. In our current toxic climate most plants have to be kept alive in incubators. At the Word Reclamation Centre for Plants and People we collect the CO2 which you breathe out whilst you are talking to the plants. Across decades words have been hijacked by advertising and political campaigns, often dissolving into meaningless sounds that people no longer recognised as 'true words'. At the Word Reclamation Centre for Plants and People we encourage our visitors to come and talk to the last organic plant specimens on Earth.
After the death of the corrupt regime, freedom has come to Shangri-La! Resources are scarce, but citizens are finally able to express themselves without fear of reprisals. As a home for free speech and citizen journalism, the Citizen Expression Shack will encourage the people to produce a record of their experiences and thoughts. By providing a range of free media direct to the people, citizens will be able to forge a new identity. Using recycled materials, people will literately be able to build a house dedicated to recording issues and happenings, and their ideas and hopes for the future.
Made from multi coloured wool wrapped around a foundation to cover the walls, floor, ceiling, windows and furniture; Empty Promise is a house made of the imagination, barely real enough to stand in, but at night, so brilliantly illuminated its impossible to ignore.
Slumton's is Shangri-La's Number 1 Estate Agency. With thousands of slums for sale and to let worldwide, we give you a unique insight into the ever changing slums market. Our café-style offices have revolutionised the selling of slums, making the dream of slum living accessible to all. The eye-catching design of our offices was created to provide a better service and a more one to one experience. Enjoy some delicious (almost clear) muddy water from the local spring whilst perusing the best selection of with and without running sewage slums – available to suit all budgets. Whether you fancy the streets of Rio or if you have aspirations for Mumbai's Dharavi (very popular after the recent TV coverage!) – we are sure to have the perfect place for you and your family. From our distinctive colour scheme to the welcoming figure of our founder adorning the roof, Slumton's cannot be missed on the streets of Shangri-La. So why not come down to see us for our special 40th Anniversary celebration – we'll have some very special slums on offer as well as some lively entertainment and music on in the area. We look forward to seeing you there!
Our design concept has worked from a shell form, through utopian fantasy fairytale castles and finally coming around to tents. Concepts include shelter, sanctuary, taking your home with you, recycling and re-imagining utopian castle forms. References to fields of tents, both within the festival setting and also refugee camps. Mass migration and the need to create shelter relates to the dystopian concepts outlined in the brief.
It will appear to be just an unassuming police box from the front but inside it will be twice the width and depth (much like the Tardis in Dr Who!).The Tardis was built using tens of thousands of lego bricks. Lego was used as a building material as it's reusable, recyclable, strong and does not biodegrade, so will last forever!
Unable to let go of the past, compelled to collect anything that might be 'Useful' for fear of what the future holds the re claimers domain resembles an Aladdin's cave of artefacts and materials. Light shimmers through the haphazard windows, coloured by the collaged plastic panes, and collections of all manner of objects hang from the walls carefully organized in groups based on material, size and countless other hierarchies. Inside the house time stands still, underlined by the lifeless clocks hanging from the wall. The house of the re claimer is like a bank of memories, a palace of past possessions in which people can marvel at the many objects, and ponder the stories that they may have once been part of. The house of the re claimer becomes a church of forgotten belongings offering wonderment and ambition to each who grace its walls. The re claimer sees value where others don't.
In a dark corner of Shangri-La rests a battered old man whose tormented mind only animates his broken limbs into action when an invention, so contradictory it borders on genius…. Inside, his walls are strewn with paraphernalia of a by-gone era; books, road signs and maps of places that may no longer exist. It is filled with objects and furniture built from technologies from the old world in new and contradictory ways. Although now there is no sign of the broken minded cretin, his television makes the room flicker with the glowing suggestion that he left in a hurry and his drawings imply he was planning for an event worse than his demented mental nightmares. Oh! and by the way, if you see the fused out old crank be sure to find out what he knows...
Every dystopian future-city needs good transport links and with the world's oil supply finally running out, options are in short supply. The government of the time, with their last throw of the dice, decided to extend the underground network across the country, all the way to Shangri-La. Though typically for Shangri-La, what you'll find isn't exactly at any normal train station, with a toothy tunnel entrance threatening to swallow those brave enough to travel. During the festival, the station will be closed due to planned industrial action and all those who cross the picket lines are at risk of being labelled a scab. You have been warned! [NOTE this entry was from a TFL Underground Worker]
The manufacture, use and disposal of tyres contribute to environmental damage in a huge way. The UK produces enough waste tyres each year to stretch from London to Sydney. They take thousands of years to decompose and they give off toxic fumes when burnt. Some tyres can be re-moulded for use again but after this they too become obsolete. Used tyres are increasingly being recycled into products like flooring, road surfacing, play areas, aggregates and footwear. They can be used in construction, as a supplementary fuel, or even reprocessed into rubber granulate for use in turf. Finding a use for waste after its intended purpose and supporting initiatives that do is a way in which we can help the environment. Blow Out will show how versatile and easy they are to use.
This proposal playfully addresses the issues of inequality- the basic gamble of birth (where when and who one is born to) that strongly influences if not determines the course of one's life. Just as one cannot choose which circumstance in which country and at what time one is born, one does not know what lies beyond the two identical doors facing the alley. The writing on the wall asks that you choose one door. You go in and find yourself in one of two possible scenarios:
1. You are in a cramped space built of scraps of salvaged materials, a dirty futon by your feet and a small pile of well worn clothing. You're poor. You sit on the bare timber floor planks and stare through the bars that separate your space from the space next door.
2. You are surrounded by luxury. The cosy space is wall-papered, carpeted and comfortably lit by an exquisite table lamp. You're rich. You sit in the antique armchair and look at the person on the other side of the bars. This split-personality space is intended to entertain and encourage interaction between visitors, perhaps even role playing possible scenarios thus turning the spaces into stage sets, separated yet forced to face each other
This Shack reclaims neglected washing up gloves that have been made redundant as a result of the dishwasher. Picture 16In contrast, the figure on top is made of readily available vegetable fibres, reflecting the natural fibres used more frequently in construction by our ancestors and a return to tradition. The distressed hessian figure will be exposed to the elements- bleached by the sun, or sodden by the rain, it will become vulnerable to its surroundings. The changing figure will be documented daily, as will the interaction from the audience. The audience will be invited to enter the structure through the legs of the figure.
Thursday June 10th 2010
Since 27th May 2010 we have started to put 11 months of hard planning and creative imaginings into practice, and here are some photos documenting the build as we go, watch it grow!
Day 1 of Shangrila; the mark out.
The hunter pruodly displays his prey. Or, Phil gets the first pieces of his field into their final position
The art department hard at work:
Does it just look a lot bigger this year because it's in an empty field?
Please join us on facebook, its a new group this year: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shangri-La/107598949284949?v=wall&ref=ts
Wednesday June 9th 2010
Hello. So, let me introduce myself. I'm Debs, and I look after Shangri-la in my capacity as Creative Director and general maternal type. Other types you might hear from on this blog include Chris, (Music Director) Robin, (Production Manager/Co-Director), Belle (Site Manager) and Timmy (Art Director). These guys are just a few of the 1500 strong crew and performers that it takes to create our very condensed little world. So much to tell about its hard to know where to start, (also, strangely, I got a bit stage fright in starting writing this being strictly a backstage type meself - none of this galavanting about, hanging off wires and getting your bits out for me!)
Anyway, when people think next weekend is a bit early to get down to site, they don't know the half of it. The truth is I'm not one of the hardcore vanguard posse... Nik (Scaff Sculptor Extraordinaire –builds the whole frame for our city) and Robin and Belle have been down since the last week in May, and the art department (Timmy, Clare (Construction Boss Lady), Philsky (Chipper Chippie ) et al have been down for a week or so. I do think of them now, schlepping wood and scaff around a rainy field and feel very proud of them but a tad guilty not to be there yet.
There are 2 best bits of this all for me, the bit before (and I'm sorry guys) all you lot turn up and chaos rains down on our heads, but that's also the other best bit, seeing you guys bring it all to life and seeing all the stuff that all my crazy friends have been working on for so long.
This year I can't wait to see what our mates in the fields around us are doing too. Its been a major expansion, and its brill. In case you don't know the history, we are all a close family of friends, most used to do stuff in the old Vagueness field. Joe Rush (unfairground), Gids (block9), Steve (common) all have their own fields to look after now, and of course so does Pip (arcadia –who have, by the way, whats generally acknowledged to be the fittest crew on site). Is it competitive? Hell yeah, but in the best possible way, I'm properly thrilled and excited and inspired by them and it drives me on to try my hardest too. Love em.
This year I'm more excited about this field than I have been in 8 years of doing it. No really. Its going to be massive…


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Saturday's 2-0 home reverse to Lecce was Bologna's second loss in succession to leave them bottom of the standings, a situation in stark contrast to Wednesday night's hosts Juventus, who kicked off the campaign with two straight wins.
A third defeat on the spin looks a real prospect for Bisoli's men, but the coach, who only took charge in May, has demanded time to rebuild his squad before the knives come out in earnest.
"We're playing against a big side, in a wonderful stadium. We need to gradually continue our work, with determination, and try to improve the situation," said Bisoli.
"I've been through the game against Lecce six times. Nothing's gone in our favour, we've been through the mill.
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Thank you catspaws and k_c_s! My parents definitely loved this print when I gave it to them. Thinking of sending them this in the pillow version next!
I love it! I love turtles so much. haha that sounds so funny but this is beautiful! I have 2 red ear sliders, their awesome and so friendly!


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Pinball Video games, huh? Born in the same place, video games grew to replace pinball in arcades – but not completely. Even as arcades themselves are becoming extinct, you'd be hard pressed to find one without at least one pinball machine. In fact, with arcades now more closely resembling a gymnasium (with all the aerobic dancing and drum bashing) you could say they've moved back toward the simple physical challenge pinball provided all along.
So the hard core simplicity and pick-up-and-play factor of pinball has kept it alive all these years. And since that's a very similar design aesthetic to an ideal portable game, it's no wonder so many handheld pinball games have been made over the years. Along with some great original games, (Hal's Revenge of the Gator) developers seem to have jumped at the chance to make any license into a pinball game, and round characters (or characters that can be made round) are particularly susceptible. Sonic, Kirby, Pikachu and Mario have all donned ball form, and even Samus from the Metroid series is about to be whacked around a table stuck in morph ball. It's strange that up until now, the original round video game guy hasn't. Well Namco may be late to the party, but this obvious hole in the mascot pinball genre has now been filled by Pac-man Pinball Advance.
Pac-man Pinball Advance opens with a story sequence, trying to justify exactly why the Pac village is now a pinball table. It's extremely strange, but nicely presented. It seems Professor Pac has invented a machine called the 'Pac-finder' that will allow Pac Man to rescue the residents of Pac Land (too many 'Pacs'!). Rescue? So does this mean they'll be kidnapped? Pac-man receives a letter that night informing him that all the residents of the town have been taken. So, as with most holllywood movies, the only way for the hero to save the rotund citizens is to jump into the Pac-finder that turns the village into a pinball table. Obvious.
So it has a story, does this mean it will be a pinball adventure type thing, with many locations and tables? Unfortunately, no. There are only four boards, and two are just 'night' versions of the other two. The tables themselves are 70s style basic flat layout. Not much of the multi level business introduced to pinball in the 80s, just a few higher levels at the back. So it's the same concept as a real pinball table – high scores and bouncing off stuff is the only motivation to play. The only variation comes in the form of some classic Pac Man legacy items – pac pellets, power pellets and ghosts. Just like the original pac man game, your aim on the table is to collect all the pac-pellets. If you collect a power pellet, ghosts are unleashed on the table and you'll get bonus points for eating them all. There's a tutorial that shows exactly what to do on each board. The tables are not very complicated, so the detailed instructions are a sign the game is aimed at kids or pinball novices.
Day and Night - not much difference.
Collecting pac pellets is more then just points though – they're currency that can be spent at the Pac Professor's house once it's opened on the table by hitting certain targets. You can buy obvious items like an extra ball (represented by Ms Pac Man), or an extra life, but there are sometimes also cool mini games, most of which are still pinball based, but one of which is a version of the Pac Man arcade game!
Pac-man Pinball Advance actually plays a decent game of pinball. The ball physics are fine, the flippers respond well, the table layouts have the right amount of challenge, and the game scrolls smoothly following your ball up and down the table. The graphics are pretty nice for a GBA game. There's a classic 70s/early 80s retro look going on for each of the tables, making it look like a 'Pac-Man Fever' cash in from 1981. They're quite colourful, and brimming with Pac-logos and flashing lights, but not overly garish. The ball is a nicely animated Pac-man head, and it actually helps to see which way the ball is rolling or spinning, since you can see his face on one side. Most of the other stuff only has a frame or two of animation, but it serves it's purpose well enough. The sound effects are fine, and include all the classic pac-man sounds (waka waka....). The music is about what you'd expect – 80s style pac grooves done in GBA midi. You can turn either the music or sound off if you'd like.
But there's just not enough to do. Even between the two completely unique tables, there's still not that much difference, since it's just the same obstacles moved to different positions, and the tables are only about 3 screens high. Classic pinball fans may also be upset that here's no plunger to launch the ball into play, pac man just appears in the middle of the table and is dropped into play. If the game is happy to break with pinball reality with this and the ghost catching sections, why not go further like so many other computer pinball games, and add breakout sections, chase sections, anything else involving a ball? As it is, it's a very plain pinball sim that isn't even a sim. Worst of all, there are no high score saves. For a game that's about high scores, this is an unforgivable sin. What's the point of trying to do better if it's not recorded?
If you're a Pac-man freak who's after a competent but limited game of pinball, this may be your thing. It may also keep some easy to please kids quiet in the back seat of the car for a couple of days. If you're itching for some pinball, and you find this cheap, it may fit the bill. Pac-man Pinball Advance is not a broken game, it's just a very limited one.


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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 at 5:20 pm in high schools, students, teens.
The April issue of National Edition, a collection of high school journalism by the American Society of News Editors, features 26 pieces. Four of them – hard news, sports and a movie review — were written by Oakland high school students.
These young Oaklanders covered the shooting of four Oakland police officers, the suspension of Skyline High School principal Al Sye, the induction of Rickey Henderson, an Oakland Tech alum, into the baseball Hall of Fame, and a review of the movie "Watchmen."
(Isabel Rodriguez-Vega, one of the student-bloggers for The Education Report, co-authored the story about Sye.)
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Stone mortar and pestle, India, 1750-1850
Mortars and pestles are used in almost every medical tradition to prepare and grind herbs and plants for treatments. They have long been amongst the key tools of the Indian medical tradition called Ayurveda. However, the pestle and mortar have been largely replaced by modern machinery now such medicines are mass produced.
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Cup-shaped vessel in which drugs or herbal mixtures are pounded with a pestle.
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An elongated piece of hard material usually made of stone. A pestle is used for grinding pigments, herbs, spices or other materials in a mortar.
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Yellowstone Volcano 2012
Yellowstone Supervolcano
What Is The Yellowstone Volcano?
The Yellowstone volcano is a supervolcano located in Northwest Wyoming. It is classified as a supervolcano for it's massive amount of power it holds beneath the ground. The classification of a supervolcano is based off the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI). This index ranges on a scale of 1-8. All supervolcanoes are classified as 8. It is considered one of the last supervolcano on the planet, with the last supervolcano eruption before it being the Toba supervolcano in Indonesia. It was established as the first national park in the 1870s. It is home to the famous "Old Faithful" geyser. This geyser erupts around every 60-90 minutes, shooting up to 8,400 gallons of hot water almost 150 feet in the air.
Yellowstone volcano is also classified as a caldera. A caldera is a massive depression in the ground, containing magma, hot gases, and liquefied rocks. It is different from normal volcanoes in that it is not raised high above the ground in a dome shape. Calderas resemble a volcanic crater. The term "caldera" comes from the Spanish word "cauldron". What exactly is brewing under there? Does it being underground make it all the more dangerous?
Yellowstone Volcano and 2012
Yellowstone Volcano is one of the biggest and most realistic of the 2012 predictions. Scientists will tell you today that Yellowstone is overdue for a volcanic eruption, thus leading to the theory that 2012 could be that date. An eruption from this supervolcano could be catastrophic, as it is estimated to be 1,000′s of times more powerful than a regular volcano. The last supervolcano to erupt, the Toba volcano, was estimated to have erupted around 75,000 years ago and theorists suggest it was the cause of wiping out the majority of the planet, and caused a temperature drop by 20 degrees Celsius.
An eruption from this supervolcano could have numerous catastrophic outcomes. It is estimated that 5 miles below the surface of the Yellowstone caldera lays a pit of magma measuring 30 miles long and 20 miles wide. With the amount of pressure contained within the supervolcano, which is already visible through its cycles of hourly "mini-eruptions", the release of this amount of hot magma could decimate North America. It's effects could reach across the world however.
If the last supervolcano is believed to be the reason of the last ice age, what could Yellowstone do? The eruption itself wouldn't be the worst, even if it did remove North America off the face of the earth (Atlantis scenario?). The eruption could cause a chain of natural occurrences that could wreck havoc on the rest of the planet – Mass tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, black ash, etc.
Whatever the case may be, the consequences of an eruption could be cataclysmic. Time will tell.
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While I was 'away' at the Asian Cup, English football 'personalities' maintained their capacity to infuriate – through stinking hypocrisy as much as the usual pig ignorance. Brady Everybody on the planet bar a couple of Buddhist monks in Bhutan (only a couple, mind) has had their say on Andy Gray's and Richard Keys' departures from SKY. So I feel almost duty-bound...Read More
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Culture Is Our Weapon
Making Music and Changing Lives in Rio de Janeiro
Patrick Neate - Author
- eBook - ePub eBook: $11.99
An inspiring mission to rescue young people from drugs and violence with music
At a time when interest in Brazilian culture has reached an all-time high, and the stories of one person's ability to improve the lives of others has captured so many hearts, this unique book takes readers to the frontlines of a battle raging over control of the nation's poorest areas. Culture Is Our Weapon tells the story of Grupo Cultural AfroReggae, a Rio-based organization employing music and an appreciation for black culture to inspire residents of the favelas, or shantytowns, to resist the drugs that are ruining their neighborhoods. This is an inspiring look at an artistic explosion and the best and worst of Brazilian society.
I am not from Rio de Janeiro originally but a from small town in Bahia, so I remember how, as a kid, we all used to look to this city for inspiration. It was, of course, the capital during the Empire and then the Republic, but it was also the cultural capital of Brazil. I remember going to the cinema in the 1950s and the images we'd see of the city: Copacabana beach, Sugarloaf, Christ the Redeemer, samba and Carnival. And, of course, the favelas.
It may seem hard to believe now but, traditionally, Rio is a city that has been proud of its favelas and all the cultural expressions that have emerged from them. São Paulo, for example, is different: the poor areas are a long way from the centre, so rich and poor don't feel like they belong to the same town. But in Rio, many favelas are at the heart of the city and they've always been a source of pride for the whole population.
In my teens, I remember sambas praising the particular beauty and happiness of favela life and later, in the 1970s, I often used to visit favelas like Mangueira myself. Even now, you'll find the richest and most chic families joining the samba parades because they're Cariocas1 and they love to celebrate the culture. But these days something has changed.
Historically, the basic difficulty facing Brazil has always been the enormous disparity of wealth between rich and poor. All things considered Brazil is a very convivial country but this huge poverty gap is an invitation to violence. Now add drug trafficking to that situation and see what happens.
I'm not an expert but I guess it began in the early 1980s: people in the favelas began to deal cocaine and suddenly some of the poorest people became very rich and powerful. Suddenly they were dealing with large amounts of money and they were able to buy weapons, police, politicians, judges and lawyers. Of course, the irony is that it never secures these people a bourgeois lifestyle. They may be rich and powerful but they can't leave the favelas for fear of their lives, and they usually die young. This is the reality.
In the past, even the criminals in the favela were seen as somehow charming. I recorded a version of the song 'Charles Anjo 45' and, with the benefit of hindsight, I can see that this song is a landmark, a turning point. By the time we recorded 'Charles Anjo 45', he was already a character that was saluted with gunshots. You see, Jorge Ben (who wrote the song) is from Tijuca and that was precisely the kind of place where this new kind of criminality was beginning to spring up.
It is true that, even now, the gangsters in Rio have some kind of charm, but the levels of violence and fear have changed beyond recognition because of the drug trade. These days, I'm sorry to say, people are afraid and the face of the city has been transformed. Look at the way all the buildings in Zona Sul are guarded by barriers, security devices and armored cars. This situation of fear and violence is the one in which AfroReggae do their work.
I first came across AfroReggae when they were just kids playing percussion. I can't remember exactly when it was nor who invited me, but I know it was 1993, because it was just after the police massacred 21 civilians in Vigário Geral and I knew this group had been put together in response to that horror. I saw them perform in a hotel not far from Ipanema and, on that first occasion, I was simply impressed by their innocence. At the time, they were just kids imitating percussion groups from Bahia; that's what they did at the very beginning, and that's how I got to know them.
Later, I discovered that it was Junior who'd put them together and that he'd done other work in these poor communities, including the newspaper AfroReggae Noticias. So I kept my eye on them and we began to interact and a little later they asked me to be their official godfather, with the actress Regina Casé as their godmother.
Over the years, I have seen the progress of AfroReggae, and their development has been unbelievable. They have worked incredibly hard and are very serious about what they do, but they also work joyfully. I don't know much about the work of other NGOs, but I do know about music and they do it incredibly well.
There is still a lot of fabulous music coming from the favelas: samba, of course, but now funk and hip hop too. AfroReggae are closest to hip hop but they mix it with other things that other groups don't. It's not fusion; rather they put different styles side by side and create contrasts. I admire the way they compose their music, creating cuts and edits as in a movie. It's beautiful and very modern. I believe AfroReggae are unique and I'm proud to be associated with them. To be honest, even if their ideology was wrong and they were not about helping people any more, they'd still be interesting because they're an important band.
But AfroReggae are about helping people. As I got to know them, so I got to know their community. They took me to Vigário Geral and I learned a lot about the environment in which they work, and the war culture that is nurtured by the drug trade. I have seen for myself very young children handling heavy weapons and it's still unbelievable to me. But AfroReggae? These guys teach younger children how to play and, in doing so, they keep them out of the trafficking. They have built houses of culture and music right in the middle of all this violence.
There are not many reasons to be optimistic in Rio right now. It is a complex situation in which violence and fear are on the rise and nobody seems to have a solution. But even amidst all these difficulties you can find some examples of beauty and excellence that give us all hope. This is what AfroReggae represent.
Caetano Veloso
Rio De Janeiro, November 2005
Reprinted by arrangement with Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., from CULTURE IS OUR WEAPON by Patrick Neate and Damian Platt
Copyright © 2006 Patrick Neate and Damian Platt"Examines the music and cultural tumult of the Brazilian favelas with a clear eye. ... Neate and Platt bring a deeply curious outsider's perspective to Rio, and the book moves easily from cocktails on elite balconies to government offices to the dangerous favela streets. ... [They] tackle complex political issues without it ever feeling like they're delivering a lecture, partly because they weave in the voices of people involved."
-Los Angeles Times
"What makes the AfroReggae story compelling is the blend of idealism and realism that Jose Junior, the founder, must have to work in his environment: the idealist view that culture can actually provide the first rung or two on a ladder that will help kids escape the violence and poverty of these slums, and the realistic assessment of what needs to be done to make that happen."
-John Schaefer, WNYC Music Hub
"The stories depicted here are suspenseful and horrifying, but more importantly, inspirational, as one group strives to bring peace to what is otherwise a war zone."
-Weekly Dig (Boston)
"Neate and Platt do an excellent job of capturing the captivating energy and many conflicting emotions of the favela communities through first-person accounts."
-Daily Texan
"As the book weaves through both the culturally rich and violent realities of Brazil, the reader in turn oscillates between admiration and absolute horror. ... [Culture Is Our Weapon] offers a rich background on the corrupt, political reality in the country-it explores the way in which music in general has played a role in Brazilian's lives and delves into the individual lives of favela residents, giving a unique perspective on the way social classes function."
-Columbia Spectator
"Platt and Neate ask people internationally to think about the images and stories we hear about Brazil, not just the poverty and oppression, but the stories that are often hidden beneath the surface. Those stories are of the social revolutions that the people of these communities are creating, and the ways they are finding success."
-Daily Vanguard
"The work of AfroReggae of changing a community through the arts is inspirational. ... When I finished this book there is no doubt in my mind that the arts can save a community."
-Reading in Color
"An inspiring book about the good things happening through Grupo Cultural AfreReggae. ... [A] tale of the people of Rio and the power of music to celebrate ethnic diversity, level social inequality, and provide hope for the oppressed community."
-Mom Most Traveled
An Interview with Damian Platt
How did you first become involved with AfroReggae?
I first heard about AfroReggae through a friend who played me their CD, their first album. It's called Nova Cara "A New Face". I was on a research trip to Brazil for Amnesty International at the time. One of the cases that we worked on was the Vigario Geral massacre, the killing of 21 civilians by police, so I already knew the favela where AfroReggae worked and was interested to hear about a group working with culture and music there. I really liked this album and got in touch with Junior, the coordinator of AfroReggae. Through some stuff that happened while I was working for Amnesty we became friends. I helped out with some connections for the first tour of AfroReggae to the UK and Junior invited me and Patrick Neate to come and write the book. That was in 2005, and I ended up working for AfroReggae for 3 years and stayed in Rio!
What are you doing in Rio now?
I work on a variety of projects. I'm coordinating a research project that the London School of Economics is carrying out with AfroReggae and CUFA, an organization set up by the rapper MV Bill. It's a partnership between these organizations as well as UNESCO and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. I'm setting up a cultural centre in the first favela in Rio de Janeiro, Morro da Providência, with the French artist JR and Mauricio Hora, a photographer born and raised in the community. During 2009 I worked with JR and Mauricio on the Brazilian leg of JR's international project "Women". JR is a friend who I met in 2006 while working at AfroReggae. I took him to visit to the Complexo do Alemao, one of the biggest favelas in Brazil, during a time when it was under constant police attack, and he took the photo that is on the back of the book. I also work as a consultant for NGOs and news outlets such as the BBC and Channel 4 and write for magazines such as The Stool Pigeon and The New Statesman.
What changes have you seen AfroReggae make in the lives of favela residents?
I have seen AfroReggae change the lives of many individual favela residents. AfroReggae brings hope and activity to communities where guns and crime are the day to day. These communities have been closed off to the outside world for many years. AfroReggae has also changed the way that viewers from the outside see favela residents. Because of AfroReggae and its relations with the Brazilian media, specifically TV Globo, there have been changes in the way favelas and young black people are represented.
How has AfroReggae expanded its influence over the years?
AfroReggae has achieved great international exposure through tours and films such as Favela Rising and internally in Brazil, principally through Globo TV and more recently a weekly TV program hosted by José Junior. The program has a unique ability to dialogue and work with partners from all sectors of Brazilian society, especially businesses.
What have been some obstacles to growth? What support have they gotten in the process?
At the beginning AfroReggae started with nothing and had to fight for space and recognition amid the risks of working in such a violent environment. AfroReggae is a grassroots organization that achieved huge growth in a short period of time. AfroReggae has grown with the support of organizations like the Ford Foundation, UNESCO, Amnesty International, the Barbican Centre, and through the film Favela Rising.
How does the Brazilian government view AfroReggae and other non-profits?
The Brazilian government has a positive relationship with cultural organizations such as AfroReggae since they promote a positive story in the news. It has a less constructive relationship with human rights organizations that directly challenge issues such as prisons and police violence.
What drew you to Brazil/Rio/the favelas?
I first came to Brazil in 1994 and made friends in Rio I was affected by the way everything seemed back to front. I had a problem with the police and people who had nothing to gain were very kind to me. I came back to Brazil in 1996 and worked in the North of the country with Catholic missionaries who used Liberation theology, a form of Christian teaching that is based upon political conscientization – an exploration of social and political contradictions – as well as the "option for the poor" that Jesus Christ showed in his life. The MST (landless movement) and other important organizations grew out of the structures established by liberation theologists. An Italian catholic priest from this background was very influential on AfroReggae in its early years.
What was most surprising to you as you got to know life in Brazil?
Ah Brazil is full of surprises! It's a multifaceted, multiracial society where there is always something going on.
What do you think would surprise most outsiders?
Everyone has their own Brazil. There are many different ways of interpreting Brazil. But I think what might surprise outsiders would be the concentration of political power and wealth in the hands of so few, considering the size and importance of the country.
Can you discuss how race plays a role in Brazilian life in general and in the favelas in particular?
Race is an issue that goes largely un-discussed and has a lot to do with the heritage of slavery. However in Brazil not all poor people are black and not all black people are poor. There are white people and many mixed race people in favelas too. There are many difficulties faced in Brazil by black people that they are better qualified to talk about than me.
Have you noticed any changes in Rio/the favelas, since the city was named the host of both the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016?
A lot of people were surprised when Rio got the Olympics. There is concern about where and how the money will be spent, but also great hope that this will be a chance to turn a page in the city's history. For once the authorities are going to have to think beyond the short term. There are signs that the city's politicians are working together in a way that they have not done in the past.
In Culture Is Our Weapon, there is a section on how African-American music and the African-American experience speaks to the kids in the favelas. How do other cultures factor into AfroReggae's work and what makes them relevant?
Well hip hop for instance is a universal language and art form that has as much influence in Rio as it does in Copenhagen and Soweto. AfroReggae itself is influenced by other culture, through travel, and religions as well. Brazil is a very spiritual country and this is reflected in day-to-day life and the work of institutions like AfroReggae.
What would you like people to know about Brazil/Rio/the favelas?
What I would like people to know is in the book. Brazil is too big and diverse a country to be easily deciphered. In terms of Rio, people should understand that one of the world's most beautiful cities is also one of the most violent, and that this violence is about control of territories inhabited by the least privileged residents in the city, that they suffer human rights abuses and despotism at the hands of armed groups and the police. That certain parts of the city live an armed conflict that affects the lives of millions of people every day, and that it is a conflict of political and economic interests.
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Today in Washington, D.C. we got our first taste of fall. It was crisp and in the low 60s. And just as we slide into the last days of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration published its summer 2012 recap.
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It's human nature to hope for positive results after spending months or even years conducting a research study. In well-designed studies, however, scientists identify in advance the criteria for success, so their optimism won't color their conclusions when the study is completed.
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The U.S. Army has been ramping up instruction in the languages of Afghanistan, even as troop levels in the country decrease in preparation for the U.S. troop withdrawal in 2014.
This year, key installations have added several hundred speakers of Pashto and Dari to their ranks, more than doubling the number of soldiers trained in the Afghan languages.
But it's not just the country's languages that are foreign to U.S. soldiers — it's the culture, as well.
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Mitt Romney seemed to make health care news in a Sunday interview on NBC's Meet the Press.
He said he might not want to repeal all of the Affordable Care Act.
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Many times what happens far away ends up coded in numbers and officialdom.
Like this weekend, a blast near NATO headquarters in Afghanistan killed at least six. NPR's Dana Farrington noted that a suicide bomber blew himself up near the entrance of Camp Eggers, where many children who work on the streets set up to sell trinkets.
Today, we get the heartbreaking news that six of the dead were children and four of them were part of the Skateistan program.
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A lot of thought goes into giving your smartphone a distinctive look and feel, from the shape of the speaker — square, round or oval — to where to put the buttons — side, front or back.
But industrial designers like Robert Brunner say he doesn't have a lot of room to be creative.
"Because you're really being so heavily driven on maintaining a minimal physical size," he says. "So you really get into this very fine envelope of a few millimeters that you have to work with."
It has become a staple of U.S. presidential campaigns: Candidates talk about getting tough with China, only to adopt much more moderate positions once they are in office.
When Ronald Reagan ran against President Jimmy Carter in 1980, the challenger often blasted the incumbent for, in his words, "abandoning" Taiwan to establish diplomatic relations with China.
"There will be no more abandonment of friends and allies by the United States of America and I want very much to send that message," Reagan said.
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The strike that shut schools in Chicago on Monday illustrates a larger, national trend: Teachers unions are having a harder time getting what they want.
For decades, teachers unions have been among the most powerful lobbying groups in nearly every state — and have been arguably even more powerful at the local level, where they've often been able to unseat school board members and even mayors who crossed them.
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Dreamworks' animated movie Puss in Boots was a big deal. It won an Oscar, and its swashbuckling, sloe-eyed kitty was voiced by Antonio Banderas.
The meticulous computer-generated animation took four years and something like $130 million to make. But another cartoon, Puss In Boots: A Furry Tail, was hand-drawn in six months for less than $1 million. It went straight to DVD — one of the many low-budget productions riding the coattails of Hollywood blockbusters.
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My child will be 5 on November 23 so she can not enter kindergarten this fall even thought she is ready both with her maturity and knowledge base. I'm so frustrated by this. She is begging me to go and it breaks my heart to say no. I have been homeschooling her for about 2 years now but it has been very relaxed.
I've called our assigned school as well as the office of early childhood education office. The school was very apologetic but the early childhood education office was just snarky. There is no test or anything they will do for her and even if we do homeschooling again this year she will just be placed in kindergarten next year when she will really be on a 1st grade math and 2nd grade everything else.
The office of early childhood education assured me that kids worked closely with G&T but then when I asked for clarification G&T doesn't start until 2nd grade!
I'm not really sure what to do. I had planned to home school through elementary school but DD wanting to actually go to school has put a major kink in all my plans.
Should I just not do school this year so she'll be on the same level as the other kids next year? Is that even fair to her? I'm not really sure what I should do.
Anyone with experience with a smart kid and a bad birth date?